... The Lords Commissioners llf the Admiralty have ordered instructions to be issued to the various dockyard directing that the regulations requiring dockyard ship- wright apprentices to serve a portion of their apprentice- ship at sea, are forthwith to be rescinded. The public subscription fot the restoration of Warwick Castle has closed. A is to be held in London, at which a cheque for the ...

... LONDON, THURSDAY. London has behaved well over this thanksgiving- has done well, one should say, i-o respect of making the very most of its grand old picturesque self-almost as well as if the aid of Messrs. Beverley, Telbin, and John O'Connor had been sought to decorate the streets. Fleet-street looked bright; the Strand was positively splendid, and the triumphal arch between Fleet-street and ...

... AN AMERICAN VIEW OF LORD MAYO. The assassination of Lord Mayo has excited great in- terest and regret in America. The }sew York papers are generally disposed to regard it as ominous towards the future of English rule. The Xac York Times takes a high view of his character. It sa.ys A great outcry was raised at Lonl Mayo's appointment. It was made on the eve of Mr. Disraeli's Cabinct going out ...

... ABERDARE INTELLIGENCE. PRSENTATION PORTRAIT TO MR L. LEWIS, LATE OF PENY- )ARRAN WORKS.—On W ednesday evening week, Mr Lewis, who has recently been appointed engineer to the Gadlys works, was presented with a portrait of himself at the Miners' Arms, Llwydcoed, when some forty or fifty of Mr Lewis's friends met to do him honour. Mr Lewis has for tome years acted as treasurer to the Trade and ...

... THE COLLIERS OF MONMOTTTHSHIBE AND SOUTH WALES. MEETING OF RHONDDA VALLEY MINERS. It is a curious fact that the people of Wales, when they believe that they have a grievance to complain of, or when any new teaching is introduced into their valleys, win learn the new doctrines and discuss their grievance nowhere but on the tops of their time-honoured hills. The principal meetings of the unions ...

... THE CHELSEA TRAGEDY. RESUMED INQUEST. The inquest touching the death of Hermann Yngcl, was resumed all Monday afternoon, at tLe Victoria 11011, Chelsea, before Dr. Diplock, the coroner, shortly arter four o'clo.k. The room was again crowdeà, and grent interest was j excited. Ellen Gordon deposed: I first met the c!tce:I.'er1 on last Tuesday week at (JromornG gaidens. He did not come to our ...

... London, which has been moulting during the recess» is itself again. The clubs are all activity the hotels are beginning to do a brisk business, which the proprietors hope will last till August. Kensjngronia, Belgravia, and Tyburnia are evidently commencing the season, and even the Ring and Rotten Row are beginning to be lively with the carriages of the aristocracy, and with noble horsemanship ...

... S.^r George Balfour, the new member for Kin- cardineshire, who is now 03 years of age, began his mili- tary career as far back as 1625, when he became a lieutenant in the Royal Madras Artillery. The Rev. Dr. Brown, late Professor of Greek in Maiischal College, Aberdeen, is dead. News has reached London of the death of M Lord, the manager of the Brighton Aquarium, after B few hours' illness. ...

... The Earh^ration Commissioners, in their thirty- second genual report, just issued, state that the number of emigrant:: who left' the United Kingdom in 1*71 was bi iug pL decrease as co-npared with 1370 of 4.505. The first-mentioned number is made up rs follows :-—Eng- lish emigrants, 102,452; Irish, il,()ój7; Scotch, 19,2B2; foreigners, not distinguished, (1,433. The com- missioners add that ...

... PRESIDENT GRANT ON THE GENET 4. AWARD. A Washington despatch of September 11. published in the Kew York Herald of the following day. says :-Presi- dent Grant, after his return to the White House to-day. expressed his satisfaction with the results as far as known of the Arbitration at Geneva, not so much on account of the pecuniary feature as of the settlement of the prin- ciples involved, and ...

... TøJl LLANDAFI1 CHOJUL FBBTIVAL took place on Thurs- day, when about 120 singers attended from this district. DISTRBSSIKO ACCIDEST.—A shocking accident happened to a middle-aged woman named Kliza Hill on Tuesday evening. It appeared that Mrs Hill was going up the Penydarran incline abo«t a quarter to six, when a journey of buggies came down loaded with workmen. She turned aeide near the wall ...

... THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. The Mark Lane Express says:—The past week has brought no improvement in the weather, and consequently no field progress could be made. More floods have come affecting even the Thames, and the same excess of mois- ture has provailed all over Europe; while new and more formidable disasters were expected in Northern Italy, and the Tiber also looked threatening. To ...